Simultaneously probing the sound speed and equation of state of the early Universe with pulsar timing arrays

L Liu, Y Wu, ZC Chen - Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Recently, several major pulsar timing array (PTA) collaborations have assembled strong
evidence for the existence of a gravitational-wave background at frequencies around the …

Toward supermassive primordial black holes from inflationary bubbles

HL Huang, YS Piao - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
The bubbles that nucleated during slow-roll inflation can be supercritical, ie, their radii are
larger than the Hubble horizon of de Sitter spacetime inside the bubble (an inflating baby …

Supersymmetric U (1) BL flat direction and NANOGrav 15 year data

R Maji, W Park - Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
We show that, when connected with monopoles, the flat D-flat direction breaking the local U
(1) BL symmetry as an extension of the minimal supersymmetric standard model can be …

Exploring the NANOGrav signal and planet-mass primordial black holes through Higgs inflation

Z Yi, ZQ You, Y Wu, ZC Chen, L Liu - arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.14688, 2023 - arxiv.org
The data recently released by the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational
Waves provides compelling evidence supporting the existence of a stochastic signal that …

Forecasting the sensitivity of Pulsar Timing Arrays to gravitational wave backgrounds

S Babak, M Falxa, G Franciolini, M Pieroni - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
Pulsar timing array (PTA) observations hinted towards the existence of a stochastic
gravitational wave background (SGWB) in the nHz frequency band. Still, the nature of the …

[HTML][HTML] Gravitational wave emission from metastable current-carrying strings in E6

A Afzal, Q Shafi, A Tiwari - Physics Letters B, 2024 - Elsevier
We discuss E 6 based extensions of the Standard Model (SM) containing two varieties of
superheavy metastable cosmic strings (CSs) that respectively have neutral and electrically …

Observable gravitational waves and with global lepton number symmetry and dark matter

D Borah, N Das, R Roshan - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
We study the possibility of testing a dark matter (DM) scenario embedded in a global lepton
number symmetry U (1) L via gravitational waves (GWs) and cosmic microwave background …

Null energy condition violation during inflation and pulsar timing array observations

G Ye, M Zhu, Y Cai - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2024 - Springer
A bstract Recently, evidence of stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) signals
observed by pulsar timing array (PTA) collaborations, has prompted investigations into their …

Quantum gravity effects on fermionic dark matter and gravitational waves

SF King, R Roshan, X Wang, G White… - Journal of Cosmology …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
We explore the phenomenological consequences of breaking discrete global symmetries in
quantum gravity (QG). We extend a previous scenario where discrete global symmetries are …

Signatures of bulk neutrinos in the early Universe

D McKeen, JN Ng, M Shamma - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
Neutrino masses and quantum gravity are strong reasons to extend the standard model of
particle physics. A large extra dimension can be motivated by quantum gravity and can …